Government responds to petition in the Supreme Court seeking an end to deportation of Rohingya refugees

India is not the refugee capital of the world.

New Delhi – ‘India is not the refugee capital of the world. We will not allow this to happen. The Government is acting according to the law’, with these words the Central Government responded to a petition being heard before the Supreme Court.

The case pertains to 150 Rohingya Muslims being held in a cantonment in Jammu & Kashmir. The Rohingyas are to be deported immediately from this camp. A petition had been filed before the SC seeking directives to the Government to postpone the deportation. Adv. Tushar Mehta, on behalf of the Central Government, told the Court that the Rohingyas in the cantonment are not refugees but illegal migrants. Petitioner Mohammad Samiullah had submitted this petition through Adv. Prashant Bhushan.

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During the hearing, Adv. Bhushan said, “The International Court of Justice gave a judgment on 23^rd January last year concerning the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Myanmar’s army has killed innocent people. There are about 7 lakh Rohingyas who have become homeless and have migrated to neighbouring countries”. (Do not be surprised if someone demands that those who represents the Rohingyas should also be deported. – Editor) Chief Justice Sharad Bobde made it clear that the petition is for Indian citizens only and not of other countries’.